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In 1888 Whistler
married Beatrice Philip Godwin, the widow of his good friend, the architect E.
W. Godwin. An artist in her own right, Beatrice designed decorative panels for
furniture as well as jewelry.

Embarking on a
three-month honeymoon, the couple traveled first to Boulogne and Paris and then
spend most of the month of October in Loches, a small town southeast of Tours,
where Whistler made a series of small etchings and taught his wife to etch...

In 1888 Whistler
married Beatrice Philip Godwin, the widow of his good friend, the architect E.
W. Godwin. An artist in her own right, Beatrice designed decorative panels for
furniture as well as jewelry.

Embarking on a
three-month honeymoon, the couple traveled first to Boulogne and Paris and then
spend most of the month of October in Loches, a small town southeast of Tours,
where Whistler made a series of small etchings and taught his wife to etch...

In 1888 Whistler
married Beatrice Philip Godwin, the widow of his good friend, the architect E.
W. Godwin. An artist in her own right, Beatrice designed decorative panels for
furniture as well as jewelry.

Embarking on a
three-month honeymoon, the couple traveled first to Boulogne and Paris and then
spend most of the month of October in Loches, a small town southeast of Tours,
where Whistler made a series of small etchings and taught his wife to etch as
well.

Green and Blue shows the green fields and low wooded hills of Touraine. With great
delicacy, Whistler depicts the scene with a myriad of subtle shades that
delineate the rolling hills and the cows pastured in the background. When the
watercolors from this trip were exhibited at Wunderlich’s in New York, one
reviewer noted, “The beautiful color-effects he so frequently produces are
quite marvelous—’stunning’—is perhaps the most appropriate word.”